Additional Resources
GHA Training Series: Funding Your Business
In this session, we share ideas for funding your business start-up. Each business and business owner has unique start-up needs, as a result most business owners combine multiple sources for start-up funds to launch their business. We invite featured guests to share how they funded their businesses, what resources they recommend, and how they communicate their funding needs to meet their individual start-up needs.
Presented by: Griffin Hammis Associates
Guest Speakers: Jane Jonas of Eyeth Studios and Lost River Vacations
ASL interpretation and captioning will be provided during the session. If you have any accessibility requests or questions, please email ajones@ndi-inc.org.
Please check back 1-2 weeks after the live webinar to view a recording of the webinar and to download the slides from the presentation.
Creating Accessible PDFs
PDF document accessibility plays a vital role in the overall accessibility of your website. To provide an equal experience for all users, regardless of disability, you must develop all digital content with accessibility in mind.
Presented by Results One LLC
ASL interpretation and captioning will be provided during the session. If you have any accessibility requests or questions, please email ajones@ndi-inc.org.
Please check back 1-2 weeks after the live webinar to view a recording of the webinar and to download the slides from the presentation.
GHA Training Series: Business Structure & Business Plan
This session touches on two pivotal parts of starting a business: choosing a business structure & navigating the business plan. In this time together, we will provide a brief overview of the common business structures, important benefit considerations for choosing a business structure, and an overview and importance of a business plan. We’ll learn and understand how our featured guests chose a business structure that best serves them and how they use their business plan as working document to help them grow and maintain their business.
Presented by Griffin Hammis Associates
Guest Speakers:
- Thad Brown of VASLA
- Sherry Wynn of Just Fix This Mess
ASL interpretation and captioning will be provided during the session. If you have any accessibility requests or questions, please email ajones@ndi-inc.org.
Please check back 1-2 weeks after the live webinar to view a recording of the webinar and to download the slides from the presentation.
Social Media Accessibility
The content you deliver via social media should be accessible. However, social media platforms don’t always make it easy to add alternative text or consider other disabilities like hearing impairment or loss, visual impairment or loss, distractions, etc. In this workshop, you will learn tips to make your social media content as compliant as possible so everyone can participate.
Presented by Results One LLC
ASL interpretation and captioning will be provided during the session. If you have any accessibility requests or questions, please email ajones@ndi-inc.org.
Please check back 1-2 weeks after the live webinar to view a recording of the webinar and to download the slides from the presentation.
GHA Training Series: Business Feasibility & Creating a Plan
Once a person identifies a business idea that fits, they need to determine if the business idea has the potential to succeed. This session explains the information that needs to be gathered to assess the feasibility of a business, strategies for supporting a person with a disability and their employment team with gathering the information, and steps for evaluating the results to ensure that the proposed concept is both viable and meets the person’s ideal conditions for employment. In this session, we invite featured guests to shift the mindsets of attendees to think differently about providing business feasibility processes and supports to reach business viability.
Presented by Griffin-Hammis Associates
Guest Speaker:
- Paola Blanco of Pixels N Paper
- Melody Stein of MxT 2510
ASL interpretation and captioning (CART) will be provided during the session. If you have any accessibility requests or questions, please email ajones@ndi-inc.org.
Please check back 1-2 weeks after the live webinar to view a recording of the webinar and to download the slides from the presentation.
Creating Accessible Content for Content Creators
What does accessible content mean, and why is it important to your customers and employees? The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines are a set of principles intended for content and web creators to ensure that all people, including those with disabilities, can view, interact, and share information. This course will teach you how to create accessible content.
Presented by Results One LLC
ASL interpretation and captioning (CART) will be provided during the session. If you have any accessibility requests or questions, please email ajones@ndi-inc.org.
Please check back 1-2 weeks after the live webinar to view a recording of the webinar and to download the slides from the presentation.
Entrepreneurship, Disability, and CDFIs: Session 4: CDFI and Founder Experiences
Accessing capital can be essential for business growth, yet many founders with disabilities report experiencing significant barriers. Come and join us for the fourth of the five-part webinar series to hear from Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) who have found ways to increase inclusion and from disability owned businesses on how they obtained the capital they needed.
Who should attend:
- Entrepreneurs with disabilities looking for information on accessing capital and how CDFI lending differs from that of traditional banks
- CDFIs with a commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion who wish to ensure they are meeting the needs of business owners with disabilities
- Entrepreneurial and other support organizations looking for information to assist their customers to access capital and other financial health supports.
ASL interpretation and captioning will be provided during the session. If you have any accessibility requests or questions, please email ajones@ndi-inc.org.
Please check back 1-2 weeks after the live webinar to view a recording of the webinar and to download the slides from the presentation.
Entrepreneurship, Disability, and CDFIs: Session 3: CDFI and Founder Experiences
Accessing capital can be essential for business growth, yet many founders with disabilities report experiencing significant barriers. Come and join us for the third of the five-part webinar series to hear from Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) who have found ways to increase inclusion and from disability owned businesses on how they obtained the capital they needed.
Special Guest: Angela Neira and Markus Larsson of Life Asset
Who should attend:
- Entrepreneurs with disabilities looking for information on accessing capital and how CDFI lending differs from that of traditional banks
- CDFIs with a commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion who wish to ensure they are meeting the needs of business owners with disabilities
- Entrepreneurial and other support organizations looking for information to assist their customers to access capital and other financial health supports.
ASL interpretation and captioning will be provided during the session. If you have any accessibility requests or questions, please email ajones@ndi-inc.org.
Please check back 1-2 weeks after the live webinar to view a recording of the webinar and to download the slides from the presentation.
Entrepreneurship, Disability, and CDFIs: Session 1: Introduction to CDFIs
Accessing capital can be essential for business growth, yet many founders with disabilities report experiencing significant barriers. This is the first session in a five-part webinar series to hear from Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) who have found ways to increase inclusion and from disability owned businesses on how they obtained the capital they needed.
Featured Guest: Pam and Andrew Porter, National Disability Finance Coalition
ASL interpretation and captioning were provided during the session. If you have any accessibility requests or questions, please email ajones@ndi-inc.org.
Deafhood Training Part 3: Communicating Effectively
Presented by: Gallaudet Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute
The Dos and Don’ts of including Deaf and hard of hearing people in your meetings on Zoom and in-person meetings. Tips and strategies to maximize communication effectiveness in meetings so that everyone feels included — not left behind.
ASL interpretation and captioning were provided during the session. If you have any accessibility requests or questions, please email ajones@ndi-inc.org.
Deafhood Training Part 2: Understanding Language Translation
Presented by: Gallaudet Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute
Further dive into Deafhood with the lens of language translation through more than one modality. This session provides an understanding of how language translation impacts small business training for Deaf and hard-of-hearing people. Providing an American Sign Language interpreter is often inadequate, especially from the training perspective — we will explore why along with the recommended solutions.
ASL interpretation and captioning (CART) will be provided during the session. If you have any accessibility requests or questions, please email ajones@ndi-inc.org.
GHA Training Series: Business Concept Development & Discovering Your Business
This session dives into strategies for identifying a business concept that fits the person. The session will focus primarily on the Discovery process and explain how it can be used to identify business concepts that are based on a person’s skill, passion, and conditions of employment. Featured guests will discuss their natural supports, their experience in identifying a business concept, essential resources, tools, and other Discovery “how-to’s” that attendees can implement immediately with their organizational services or their businesses.
Presented by Molly Sullivan and Ciara Ladroma, Griffin-Hammis Associates
Guest Speakers:
- Matthew Shapiro of 6 Wheels Consulting
- Trevor Dealy and Tia Hanson-Dealy of Trev’s Trade
ASL interpretation and captioning (CART) will be provided during the session. If you have any accessibility requests or questions, please email ajones@ndi-inc.org.
GHA Training Series: Net Earnings from Self-Employment and SSI/Medicaid
This session will explain how net earnings from self-employment (NESE) affects SSI, and how an SSI beneficiary can have more income when self-employed. When explaining the effect of NESE on SSI, this session will provide a brief explanation of the SSI work incentives. This session will also provide a general explanation of the affect NESE has on Medicaid.
ASL interpretation and captioning (CART) will be provided during the session. If you have any accessibility requests or questions, please email ajones@ndi-inc.org.
GHA Training Series: Building Your Team
Building an effective team is critical for success with any self-employment venture, whether the potential business owner has a disability or not. This session will provide viewers with a map of the common self-employment team members supporting people with disabilities, and tips for finding those resources in different cities and towns. Featured guests will share their experience in assembling and leading a team made up of professional and personal connections that made their businesses possible.
Presented by: Griffin Hammis Associates
Guest Speakers:
- Andrea of Puppy Luv Dog Boutique
- Lorraine of Becoming rentABLE
ASL interpretation and captioning were provided during the session. If you have any accessibility requests or questions, please email ajones@ndi-inc.org.
Disability-Sensitivity Session 1: Introduction to Disability Inclusion
At the end of the session, you will be able to:
• Identify different types of disabilities as defined by the ADA, including hidden disabilities;
• Share appropriate responses to people with disabilities;
• Use person-centered approaches
• Debunk some common myths about people with disabilities
• Identify specific, actionable tips for treating people with disabilities respectfully
Disability-Sensitivity Session 8: Creating Accessible Content for Content Creators: The Basics
What does accessible content mean, and why is it important to your customers and employees? The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines are a set of principles intended for content and web creators to ensure that all people, including those with disabilities, can view, interact, and share information. This course will teach you how to create accessible content.
ASL interpretation and live captioning (CART) were provided during the session. If you have any accessibility requests or questions, please email ajones@ndi-inc.org.
Disability Awareness and Sensitivity Series: Session 5 Blind and Low Vision
This session will cover the definitions of blindness and low vision, share some common myths, and include the lived experience of Shawn Calloway, President, National Federation of the Blind of Washington, DC, Radio Show Host of “Open Our Eyes”, Motivational Speaker, and Disability Advocate.
